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1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they did

by rundev 2y ago

1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they didn't last that long. A decade or more is basically forever in a fast-moving field like tech.

itsoktocry 2y ago
>If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. Sounds like something a VC would say. Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets? The patent system needs reform, not elimination.
- financltravsty 2y ago
  Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it? Seems awfully self-centered.
  - mkatx 2y ago
    The patent system certainly needs reform, but I think more along the lines of what gets accepted as a patent. Discovering what I would describe as a 'natural law' should not be patentable (but I think happens everyday), and those ideas should not be kept from human progress, imho. There's a line between research paper and patent, that I believe is blurred for profit. But a true invention, a novel use of those laws, should be patentable. Are you saying that if you discover a novel use of natural laws, a product that could be capitalized, your own unique idea, that you should not be able to capitalize on it? Maybe this would work in a trek economy, but not with capitalism. If your worried about innovation, how innovative could we be if discoveries/inventions were squandered because there are no protections if you happen to even mention your idea to someone?
  - brewdad 2y ago
    I mean the patent is public information. If you want to have a go at selling it, buy it or license it from me and have at it. Otherwise, invent your own idea or wait for mine to expire.
    - financltravsty 2y ago
      Or I could lobby for patent reform so one person doesn't hold up the progress of everyone else via selfishness.

by rundev 2y ago

itsoktocry 2y ago

>If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. Sounds like something a VC would say. Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets? The patent system needs reform, not elimination.

financltravsty 2y ago
Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it? Seems awfully self-centered.
- mkatx 2y ago
  The patent system certainly needs reform, but I think more along the lines of what gets accepted as a patent. Discovering what I would describe as a 'natural law' should not be patentable (but I think happens everyday), and those ideas should not be kept from human progress, imho. There's a line between research paper and patent, that I believe is blurred for profit. But a true invention, a novel use of those laws, should be patentable. Are you saying that if you discover a novel use of natural laws, a product that could be capitalized, your own unique idea, that you should not be able to capitalize on it? Maybe this would work in a trek economy, but not with capitalism. If your worried about innovation, how innovative could we be if discoveries/inventions were squandered because there are no protections if you happen to even mention your idea to someone?
- brewdad 2y ago
  I mean the patent is public information. If you want to have a go at selling it, buy it or license it from me and have at it. Otherwise, invent your own idea or wait for mine to expire.
  - financltravsty 2y ago
    Or I could lobby for patent reform so one person doesn't hold up the progress of everyone else via selfishness.